The Rise Of Otaku - Chapter 12

Chapter 12: Chapter 12 The Old Immortal Crane
Translator: Doggotranslation Editor: Doggotranslation

Finally, all the requirements for summoning the old immortal crane(bird) were gathered in full. This was definitely not an easy quest. Especially collecting the ten small cards. It could be said that each one of them was covered with his blood and tears. Even Zhou Yu himself was also surprised that he could survive the brutal beatings to the end. Because he knew that he was not a persevering man, especially when there was pain involved.
The old dragon king was also very happy. Following the cormorant fisherman, another new member was joining the village soon. It seemed, it would not be long before the village prospered.
Still the old place, and the old scene. On the stage, the Yin Yang fish once again started to rotate. After the light, a red-crowned crane who was dressed in Taoist robe, holding a fly whisk, appeared before them.
With divine poise and sagelike features, the old immortal crane took two steps elegantly while waving its fly whisk, saying, “This place is not bad, please make a Taoist temple for me. I’ll settle here from now on.”
The Temple Of The Three Pure Ones requirements: Phoebe zhennan x 20, Agarwood x 20, regular building stone x 60… There was some other stuff as well. All of them combined together was much more expensive than the house that he built for the cormorant fisherman. It was not something that he could build just using a pot plant.
Luckily, he had already gathered enough wooden material, and there were enough regular stones in the storage room, all of which came from the gashapon machine.
He asked the beaver to work on the temple in his storage room, in case He Yuanyuan, who occasionally came to visit him, saw it. Although she would not be able to see the beaver, seeing a pile of wood timber suddenly turned into a Taoist temple by itself, would be very creepy.
The storage room was also a great thing; he had thrown many materials inside it during this time. From the real world’s perspective, it should have reached its capacity by now, but it was mysteriously never full.
It took beaver two days to finally complete the temple. Taking it out from the storage room, Zhou Yu wanted to have a better look.
It was truly a magnificent building.
The Palace Of The Three Pure Ones was the main building, there were two other small palaces, one on each side behind the main building. Looking through the main door of the palace, Zhou Yu was even able to see the wooden statues of the Three Pure Ones sitting in the center of the main palace.
The exquisite miniature palace was lavishly decorated with painted ridges, carved beams, and meticulous wooden window lattices. It was embedded on top of a one-meter tall stone platform that was made of regular stones as if they were fused together. There were also small stairs coiling around the platform from the bottom to the top. Overall, the whole thing looked like a beautiful palace sitting on a tall cliff.
Zhou Yu didn’t know why he felt like the whole thing looked very heavy from the first look. However, he could easily lift it up, as if it was empty inside.
However, as he lowered his head, it suddenly fell to the ground and he couldn’t even move the entire thing an inch.
Luckily, it didn’t land on his feet.
Having placed the temple scale model inside his yard, Zhou Yu instantly felt as if there was a real temple inside his yard. It would be even more like it if he lit incense in the big tripod incense burner in the center of the square before the main palace.
Looking at it from left and right, it was perfect no matter from which angle he looked. The beaver was truly a god-level carpenter. It was just that his fee was too expensive. He once more depleted the Moe Coins that he had been accumulating recently.
After a while, He Yuanyuan and Zhou Shuyu, these two girls came to visit him again. They were not able to move their eyes away from the temple after they saw it. They were constantly using their phones to take photos of it while constantly praising how beautiful it was.
“So pretty! Brother Yu, you are so good at craftsmanship!”
“Brother Yu, I have already told you that you should give up writing. Just selling those potted plants and miniature buildings will make you rich!”
Zhou Yu didn’t know that Zhou Shuyu would like money that much. Every time she came over she would always ask Zhou Yu to open an online shop with her. She said that she would help Zhou Yu manage the shop, all he needed to do was to produce those products.
It was a shame that Zhou Yu was not interested in her business proposal. Clearly, he could earn a lot of money, but he preferred to write some stories. It made Zhou Shuyu extremely frustrated. Looking at the building again, Zhou Shuyu gauged that it was definitely worth several thousand Chinese Yuan.
Speaking of the online shop, Zhou Shuyu had actually already opened one when she was still in high school. She often sold some village products online. She didn’t earn much money from it, just some extra pocket money. Now that she discovered a great business opportunity, it was understandable that she couldn’t control herself.
Alas, what she got this time, was again another head shake. Seeing Zhou Yu reject her proposal once again, Zhou Shuyu couldn’t do anything but take a few more photos frustratingly.
‘This is outrageous. If I have those products. Not only am I able to make money from it, but it can also increase my online shop’s fame.’
But this wouldn’t make Zhou Shuyu give up. After all, she had been rejected so many times. She was already immune to it.
She didn’t know much about the pot plants, and how much they were worth, so recently, she had been doing some research online, asking other people how much Brother Yu’s plants would be worth.
But Zhou Yu didn’t know what Zhou Shuyu was planning. What made him feel headaches at the moment was the idol flower.
Since the completion of the Taoist temple and after the old immortal crane settled down. The curse was also removed from the idol flower. However, what made Zhou Yu want to cry was that the old immortal crane asked for money before removing the curse. Clearly, this guy was living in the temple that had been built using his money, but it did not even feel ashamed when asking for money!
Anyway, the little idol, who had been sleeping for quite some time, was finally able to get rid of the curse. He slowly stretched and made a long yawn while rubbing his eyes. When he finally opened his eyes and looked at Zhou Yu, a smile immediately appeared on his face. He quickly flew towards Zhou Yu and said.
“Daddy, daddy!”
‘Fuck! Unexpected fatherhood!(1)’ 2
At this moment, Zhou Yu didn’t know what kind of facial expressions he should use to face this cute little creature. Actually, if he needed to choose, he would rather choose a daughter, not a son, especially not a son that looked this beautiful…
However, he couldn’t change it.
Reluctantly accepting his fate, he checked the status of the little idol:
Li Weinian – fostering period,
Attributes: ??,
Skill: ???,
Mood: happy.
It seemed like he also needed to be a nanny for some time.
…
Little Niannian soon became familiar with the new environment. He also met with other villagers of the ACG world, such as the old dragon king. However, He was more interested in knowing those two girls. Lying prone on the head of He Yuanyuan, while looking at Zhou Shuyu, who was taking the photos of camellia, he asked, “Daddy, daddy, which one is mommy?’
“Puff! Cough, cough…” Zhou Yu was almost choked by his own saliva. Luckily, the girls couldn’t hear it. Otherwise, he couldn’t imagine what kind of punishment he would receive from them.
Quickly asking him to get down and sit on his shoulder, he planned to teach him some manners after the girls left, in case of him saying something inappropriate in the future.
Seeing Zhou Yu’s face was twisted as if he was constipated, He Yuanyuan thought that he was not satisfied with the miniature temple. She couldn’t help but admire Zhou Yu having such high artistic standards, despite him being young, and most importantly unemployed.
Having stayed in the yard for a while, Zhou Shuyu finally took enough photos. She left happily with He Yuanyuan and planned to upload the photos she took to the internet. He Yuanyuan only felt that those pot plants were pretty, but He Shuyu thought that it was a great business opportunity.
However, all Zhou Yu thought right now, was how to raise an idol.
…note…
In China, Wearing the legendary green hat or Unexpected fatherhood often means that one’s girlfriend is pregnant with someone else’s kid.